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ACCESS and Emblaze Mobile have recently unveiled their new Else Intuition phone, a successor to the first ELSE handset. It runs on Access Linux Platform v3.0 with touch UI, which provides advanced flexibility and configurability, allowing users to run multiple applications at the same time. Other features include:

Hurray! We're glad to inform you that Linux can finally be ported to the first iPhone, iPhone 3G, and first-generation iPod touch platforms. The first version of the port is very raw and has a lot of the needed stuff missing, but that will be fixed in the future releases. Here's what currently works:

Access ALP 3.0 and ALP mini are almost ready, but who cares about it now. These two Linux-based systems for PDAs should have been released long before the announcement of Android. Now the train has left...

Anyway, it looks like ALP 3.0 will focus on those fancy, transition effects, while ALP mini is a basic version for normal use. NTT DoCoMo is likely to release a couple of ALP phones in the second half of 2009.

Judging by the available documentation this phone is for the Asian market and is not planned for a stateside release. But if you really want it, there's no problem in buying it outside the U.S. and bringing it back home, as it supports for quad band GSM, which allows for worldwide usage.

The latest build offers several enhancements, including faster browsing speeds and support for more Web technologies (Widgets, JavaScript, Ajax, Flash and Flash Lite 3), which deliver a more desktop-like browsing experience on a smartphone.

Some of the functions of the Opera Mobile include page content zooming, offline browsing, sending web links or images as SMS/MMS messages and more.